One of two young shark attack victims to lose an arm in separate encounters in North Carolina over the weekend said he “didn’t see it coming.”
In comments released by 16-year-old Hunter Treschl’s family via New Hanover Regional Medical Center, the teen said he felt the shark bite his leg, “and then I saw that it had attacked my arm because it was out of the water a little bit.”
Treschl and a 12-year-old girl both lost their left arms to shark bites in separate incidents about two miles apart in Oak Island, North Carolina, on Sunday.
The attacks also…
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